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Heat Stability in White Wine
By Shea Comfort If an unstabilized wine has an excess of protein, this protein can come out of its solubilized form, flocculate and deposit at...
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Testing For Heat Stability
By Shea Comfort Heat stability test protocol: • Fine filter a 100 mL sample of wine (a coffee filter works great for this). If the sample...
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Timing Stabilization Treatments
By Shea Comfort • If you will only be doing cold stabilization, then this can be done during the ageing of the wine at any...
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Final Racking and Whether to Sterile Filter
By Shea Comfort Once the wine has cold stabilized you should have clear wine sitting on top of a layer of crystals that form a...
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Pressing Small Batches
By Tristan Johnson This is the simplest and least expensive method for pressing off red wine fermented from small lots of grapes or from a...
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Red Fermentation Checklist
By Shea Comfort At the crusher: SO2: Use 50 ppm (1.6 g or ¼ tsp per 5 gallons of must). Add SO2 as soon as the...
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White Fermentation Checklist
By Shea Comfort At the crusher: SO2: Use 50 ppm (1.6 g or ¼ tsp per 5 gallons of must). Add SO2 as soon as the...
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How to Choose a Crusher Destemmer
By Tristan Johnson Info The Crusher-Destemmer, Destemmer-Crusher and Destemmer-Only are machines that are used to separate the grapes themselves from the stems and then to...
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How to Choose a Wine Grape Press!
By Tristan Johnson Info There are basically two types of wine press in the world: Basket Presses (also called Ratchet Presses) and Bladder Presses. The...
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How to Choose a Stainless Wine Tank!
By Tristan Johnson InfoThe use of stainless steel tanks in home winemaking is fairly common. Because winemakers only get one chance each year to begin...
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How to Choose a Wine or Must Pump!
By Tristan Johnson InfoThere are two main classifications of pumps that are used in wineries: Must Pumps have oversized pump heads and work with larger tubing so...
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How to Choose a Wine Filter!
By Tristan Johnson InfoWe sell Plate and Frame filters for winemaking. Basically these filters consist of plastic plates which hang in a steel frame. The...
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Choosing Whether to Press or Macerate White Grapes
By Shea Comfort The timing of filling the press depends on the technique of processing the fruit you decided to use: Whole clusters: Fill the...
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Transferring/Racking Wine
By Shea Comfort In winemaking, transferring the product from one container to another is referred to as racking and can be done in one of...
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Advanced Winemaking Books
By Cory Grossgart Principles and Practices of Winemaking - Authored by the viticulture and enology professors from the University of California at Davis, this text provides...
